Jesus Ken, what the hell you doing in Illinois? Besides sweating your
ass off. I thought you were in the Carolina's. LOL

I should mention that there is a couple Vermilion Rivers in Illinois.
The other runs to the Illinois river near Starved Rock and has class
II/III rapids at times with guides running rafts, canoes, and kayaks.

If your not opposed to it, floating grasshoppers on the Sugar and
Kickapoo creeks over in Logan county in late summer can produce a few
smallies, catfish and the occasional hybrid striper. The closer you get
to where it joins the Salt creek over by Mason county the more hybrids
you will find. Some of those are tackle busters. These are, just your
average mud bank creeks with some gravel riffles. The Sugar is
shallower than the Kickapoo or Salt and still within it's original
banks, not just a ditch.

Carlos